Christmas (The Who)

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"Christmas"
Song by The Who
From the album Tommy
Album released 23 May 1969
Recorded September 19 1968 to March 7, 1969
Genre Rock
Song Length 4:34
Record label Polydor
Producer Kit Lambert
Tommy Album Listing
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Christmas is a song written by Pete Townshend and is the seventh song on The Who's rock opera Tommy. The song tells how on Christmas morning, Tommy's father (others claim it is both of Tommy's parents) is worried about Tommy's future, and soul. He claims "Tommy doesn't know what day it is/He doesn't know who Jesus was or what praying is," and he wonders "How can he be saved/From the eternal grave?"

That same Christmas, Tommy is given a game of pinball, foreshadowing to the events that take place in Pinball Wizard.